Bonsai and terrarium
One of my other hobbies is growing house plants. I’m not very good with gardening but really have much more luck with indoor plants. Yesterday I found an old container that is now working as a terrarium. I grew this small African violet from a cutting and have just today placed it in this tiny pot. I grew the AV cutting in a different terrarium and now have it in this. You can see the scale of how small it is compared to my bonsai schefflera. The bonsai is about 15 years old now and grows over a large lava rock. It still seems very happy!
Earrings for Valentine’s Day
I’ve been working on these handmade earwires this weekend and posted these three sets of earrings to my Etsy shop. Enjoy!
Copper Earrings
My first set of earrings that I made the ear wires for. I used 20 gauge copper wire and various beads. And yes, I used old library catalog cards to display them.
Pretty Mandy
Mandy is looking like one beautiful bitch in the sweater I made her on a round knitting loom 
Lustra Feather and Fan Scarf
For this scarf I used Berroco Lustra yarn which is 50% Peruvian Wool and 50% Tencel Lyocell. It’s a wonderful yarn to work with and the feather and fan stitch works great with it!
Countryside Ruffle Scarf
For this scarf I used Sundance Countryside yarn which is Acrylic/Mohair/Wool and used a simple ruffle pattern. It’s a modified version of the LoDo scarf pattern on Ravelry.
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,500 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.
Pink Ruffle Baby Blanket
Delivered this commissioned pink ruffle baby blanket yesterday. I made up the pattern and used Caron Simply Soft yarn.
First batch for BellaDonnas
I finally got around to taking 3 scarves, a wrap and a shawl to BellaDonnas to sell. Hoping they get sold!
